Mission Statement

The Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology within the Faculty of Life Sciences aims at a mechanistic understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes from organismic to ecosystem scale. Specifically, we study and teach biodiversity, symbioses, metabolic pathways, ecophysiology and ecosystem functioning in light of environmental change.

Units

Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics

Christa Schleper - Archaea Ecology and Evolution
Silvia Bulgheresi - Environmental Cell Biology
Simon Rittmann - Archaea Physiology & Biotechnology
Filipa Sousa - Genome Evolution and Ecology

Limnology

Christian Griebler - Groundwater Ecology
Katrin Attermeyer - Carbocrobe
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

 

 

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Palak Chaturvedi - Crops in a Changing Climate Environment
Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Markus Teige - Plant signalling
Steffen Waldherr - Computational methods for systems biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

10.09.2018
 

ICRISAT will partner the Vienna Metabolomics Center, University of Vienna, to study drought tolerance in chickpea and analyze the two-line hybrid...

10.09.2018
 

 

 

The Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich has appointed Dr. Nägele as professor for Evolutionary Cell Biology of Plants.

 

Congratulations,...

10.09.2018
 

"How can we save our climate" asks the University of Vienna this semester. Wolfram Weckwerth gives an insight on the role which plants and Green...

10.09.2018
 

The Symposium "Building blocks of Life – from Metabolomics and Proteomics to Systems Biology" was jointly organized by The University of Vienna,...

06.09.2018
 

„An interdisciplinary Approach: On the Habitability of Enceladus’ Potential Subsurface Water Reservoir“

05.09.2018
 

Congratulations to Erika Wimmer and Isabella Anna Zink for recieving the award for Best Poster at EMBoA6!